I've often said over the last two seasons that I prefer the best of ABC's current comedy lineup to NBC's (and Community is easily my favorite NBC comedy, by the way), because ABC's are generally less smart-alecky, smug and (once again) ironic.

I'm given to entertaining pessimistic thoughts on more than the rare occasion, so I'd always have some smart-alecky remark for him when he'd ask me, but we'd always take it in stride and laugh it off, and lo and behold I would almost always be pleasantly surprised.